Why is the headline of the story, "Bypass Windows..."?
Wouldn't this same technology allow you to bypass Linux, BSD, OS X or any other OS out there? Wouldn't it offer you same or more utility in any case?
How about this one: "Bypass Linux With Fast-Boot Technology" - Don't have time/patience/technical aptitude to learn Linux? Easy, just bypass Linux and learn Firefox and OpenOffice.
Steve Jobs has said before that Apple is a hardware company.
They don't WANT to write high-end professional software. They want to write intuitive user-friendly apps that promote the experience of using their hardware, which is their bread and butter.
They didn't drop the "computer" from their name because they want to get into software, it's because they've got more brand-awareness from iPods these days than from Macs. I doubt you could get Photoshop running on your iPhone.
You said he wasn't responsible. You implied that you believed his motivations were honorable. THAT is being fucking stupid.
Of course locking him up won't fix the problem, it doesn't mean he's not a criminal. The only more serious consequence would be for innocent people to die. That was a real possibility in THIS situation. The fact that it didn't happen is due only to the competence of the officers involved.
People ignore such reports, as has been proven time and time again.
He didn't put anyone's lives in danger. The 911 center did, by using systems which can be spoofed by any fucktard with a cell phone.
[sarcasm] This young hero has shown great courage today. I think we should all commend his patriotic efforts to improve our police services and protect the public good. We can rest easier tonight knowing that pure, kind-hearted souls such as this young man are out there to protect us from these rogue paramilitary teams prowling our streets. [/sarcasm]
And that keeps the rest of us working! Do you think I'd make any money building web sites if I went around speaking clearly and telling everyone how easy it is??
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I think some of your points are perfectly valid, though you seem a tad cynical. I'm confident that technology has a few things to offer us yet. Things will need to change, the oil won't last forever, but "dark ages" is a little extreme.
Do I think I'll ever be traveling in space? Of course not. That's ridiculous. Do I think humanity will ever go to the stars? Doubtful, certainly not any time in the foreseeable future. Could there be primitive life elsewhere in the solar system? Possibly, why not look for it? We have the technology now. TFA isn't about us vacationing there, it's about robotic probes returning pictures.
Do you really believe that we shouldn't learn about other planets simply because we can't live there? You implied the miles deep oceans were worth learning about, and I assure you we can't live at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
There's quite a bit of foul language (if you hold to the belief that language can be foul, I don't) in Halo 3, it's just not central to the plot. There's a lot of new dialog options opened up by the Daddy skull, and those have to be covered by the ESRB rating. Also, the flood are pretty graphic and gory. Infesting people alive and taking over their bodies and such. I personally think Halo 3 is perfectly appropriate for teens, but I can see why it has an M rating.
I believe scholars generally accept that a more accurate translation would be "thou shalt not murder". Killing aliens bent the destruction of all sentient life in a galaxy is not murder in any legal or biblical sense.
I was just commenting that Bakula tried really hard to do the Kirkesque campy, dramatic-pause laden delivery.
I need to disagree with you on TNG though. The first and seventh seasons were pretty awful, but rest was great. Enterprise and DS9 were mediocre. Voyager was a steaming load of crap, on that we can agree.
Really? I have a loveless marriage with Windows at home. Sure, the games are great, but I feel like Windows doesn't really appreciate me anymore. I work with a really sexy Mac and I keep asking myself, "What if?"
Good point, but I think it really depends on level of intelligence in the machines.
If they're basically life-like animatronic dolls, I think it would be "acceptable" behavior in the sense that it would be more like masturbation than a relationship, but marriage? It would be like saying, "In 2050, people will be marrying their toasters!"
On the other hand, if we have machines that are demonstrably intelligent and have a semblance of emotion, we're going to be looking a whole different can of worms. That will not go over well. We'll be letting murderers and thieves out of prison in order to make room for people with robot girlfriends, and the robot girlfriends will be recycled.
I agree that games are art, and I disagree with the particulars of Sen. Yee's law, but I doubt you're going to change anyone's mind by implying that the theocratic censorship of proven scientific fact or execution for thought crimes are on the same level as having a non-government body re-rate your video game.
That's the thing. Consumers don't want BC. Or at least, they don't care.
You get a skewed view of the world when you read nothing but gaming forums online. This crowd (for some reason) thinks BC is really important. But the "unwashed masses" don't buy a new console to play old games. They just don't. They don't care. Hell, many of them probably don't even realize there IS BC on there PS2 or PS3.
Really? I want backwards compatibility. Nothing that's coming out for the PS3 has any appeal to me at all. I would have bought one once the price got low enough (~$300) just to play my extensive PS2 library in hi-def. So that's at least 2 people who won't be buying one. It's totally anecdotal, but I find it hard to believe that there is no interest in it. No one is coming to the PS3 in a vacuum, it's long-term fans of the PlayStation brand who are interested in it. They have PS1 and PS2 games.
Microsoft realized this when they went for pure software emulation of the Xbox, and then essentially gave up on it 6 months later (updates have stopped).
Well if that's true they only stopped recently. I've had xbox games that previously didn't work start working with updates in the last few weeks. I do play more 360 games on it than I do original xbox games, but I don't have any original xbox games that I think, "I will absolutely never play this again!". One of the reasons I bought a 360 in the first place was that I can continue to play the games I love, often with improved graphics.
If Sony thinks there are enough killer games for the PS3 to justify dropping BC, they're totally wrong.
I'm waiting for the "one CD for each player" policy, where you need one CD for the stereo in your house, another for your car, and another for work, etc.
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Why is the headline of the story, "Bypass Windows..."?
Wouldn't this same technology allow you to bypass Linux, BSD, OS X or any other OS out there? Wouldn't it offer you same or more utility in any case?
How about this one: "Bypass Linux With Fast-Boot Technology" - Don't have time/patience/technical aptitude to learn Linux? Easy, just bypass Linux and learn Firefox and OpenOffice.
Steve Jobs has said before that Apple is a hardware company.
They don't WANT to write high-end professional software. They want to write intuitive user-friendly apps that promote the experience of using their hardware, which is their bread and butter.
They didn't drop the "computer" from their name because they want to get into software, it's because they've got more brand-awareness from iPods these days than from Macs. I doubt you could get Photoshop running on your iPhone.
You said he wasn't responsible. You implied that you believed his motivations were honorable. THAT is being fucking stupid.
Of course locking him up won't fix the problem, it doesn't mean he's not a criminal. The only more serious consequence would be for innocent people to die. That was a real possibility in THIS situation. The fact that it didn't happen is due only to the competence of the officers involved.
People ignore such reports, as has been proven time and time again.
He didn't put anyone's lives in danger. The 911 center did, by using systems which can be spoofed by any fucktard with a cell phone.
[sarcasm] This young hero has shown great courage today. I think we should all commend his patriotic efforts to improve our police services and protect the public good. We can rest easier tonight knowing that pure, kind-hearted souls such as this young man are out there to protect us from these rogue paramilitary teams prowling our streets. [/sarcasm]
" "Buy him out", boys!"
We're pretty full at the moment, but if you're up for moving to Milwaukee, cultural hub the midwest, I could pass your name along to HR.
I'm a web developer, and at my company we recognize "SEO experts" for what they are: The snake oil salesmen of the 21st century.
And that keeps the rest of us working! Do you think I'd make any money building web sites if I went around speaking clearly and telling everyone how easy it is??
[WARNING: This preceding content may contain sarcasm. Use with caution.]
I think some of your points are perfectly valid, though you seem a tad cynical. I'm confident that technology has a few things to offer us yet. Things will need to change, the oil won't last forever, but "dark ages" is a little extreme.
Do I think I'll ever be traveling in space? Of course not. That's ridiculous. Do I think humanity will ever go to the stars? Doubtful, certainly not any time in the foreseeable future. Could there be primitive life elsewhere in the solar system? Possibly, why not look for it? We have the technology now. TFA isn't about us vacationing there, it's about robotic probes returning pictures.
Do you really believe that we shouldn't learn about other planets simply because we can't live there? You implied the miles deep oceans were worth learning about, and I assure you we can't live at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
There's quite a bit of foul language (if you hold to the belief that language can be foul, I don't) in Halo 3, it's just not central to the plot. There's a lot of new dialog options opened up by the Daddy skull, and those have to be covered by the ESRB rating. Also, the flood are pretty graphic and gory. Infesting people alive and taking over their bodies and such. I personally think Halo 3 is perfectly appropriate for teens, but I can see why it has an M rating.
I believe scholars generally accept that a more accurate translation would be "thou shalt not murder". Killing aliens bent the destruction of all sentient life in a galaxy is not murder in any legal or biblical sense.
So I must admit that I'm a little lost.
Both of your posts seem heavily laden with sarcasm. Which, if either, of them represents your real opinion?
Or were we not supposed to realize that you replied to your own post?
I was just commenting that Bakula tried really hard to do the Kirkesque campy, dramatic-pause laden delivery.
I need to disagree with you on TNG though. The first and seventh seasons were pretty awful, but rest was great. Enterprise and DS9 were mediocre. Voyager was a steaming load of crap, on that we can agree.
Scott Bakula gave it a pretty good try.
It's ok, he's a first generation Earthling.
...AND anatomically correct!
Really? I have a loveless marriage with Windows at home. Sure, the games are great, but I feel like Windows doesn't really appreciate me anymore. I work with a really sexy Mac and I keep asking myself, "What if?"
Good point, but I think it really depends on level of intelligence in the machines.
If they're basically life-like animatronic dolls, I think it would be "acceptable" behavior in the sense that it would be more like masturbation than a relationship, but marriage? It would be like saying, "In 2050, people will be marrying their toasters!"
On the other hand, if we have machines that are demonstrably intelligent and have a semblance of emotion, we're going to be looking a whole different can of worms. That will not go over well. We'll be letting murderers and thieves out of prison in order to make room for people with robot girlfriends, and the robot girlfriends will be recycled.
I agree that games are art, and I disagree with the particulars of Sen. Yee's law, but I doubt you're going to change anyone's mind by implying that the theocratic censorship of proven scientific fact or execution for thought crimes are on the same level as having a non-government body re-rate your video game.
It must be something with D2. I got carded to buy a new copy a couple of months ago. I'm 27 and I rarely get carded when buying beer.
How would you be able to tell the difference?
You get a skewed view of the world when you read nothing but gaming forums online. This crowd (for some reason) thinks BC is really important. But the "unwashed masses" don't buy a new console to play old games. They just don't. They don't care. Hell, many of them probably don't even realize there IS BC on there PS2 or PS3.
Really? I want backwards compatibility. Nothing that's coming out for the PS3 has any appeal to me at all. I would have bought one once the price got low enough (~$300) just to play my extensive PS2 library in hi-def. So that's at least 2 people who won't be buying one. It's totally anecdotal, but I find it hard to believe that there is no interest in it. No one is coming to the PS3 in a vacuum, it's long-term fans of the PlayStation brand who are interested in it. They have PS1 and PS2 games.
Microsoft realized this when they went for pure software emulation of the Xbox, and then essentially gave up on it 6 months later (updates have stopped).Well if that's true they only stopped recently. I've had xbox games that previously didn't work start working with updates in the last few weeks. I do play more 360 games on it than I do original xbox games, but I don't have any original xbox games that I think, "I will absolutely never play this again!". One of the reasons I bought a 360 in the first place was that I can continue to play the games I love, often with improved graphics.
If Sony thinks there are enough killer games for the PS3 to justify dropping BC, they're totally wrong.
You really want them in the legs. Way more slots and you dissipate a lot more heat when you're standing in the water.
They're not mutually exclusive. Your brain is liquid heated and liquid cooled.
I'm waiting for the "one CD for each player" policy, where you need one CD for the stereo in your house, another for your car, and another for work, etc.